CubbieBum

You are right. I know you didn't mean to be but working downtown where you meet a lot of people who live around New Orleans and talk to them everyday you learn about the city. I have been here almost 9 months and have worked at customer service jobs the whole time. I also went out and reported high school football and sat in crowd where many of them would still talk about Katrina and the city not being rebuilt. One of my roommates also has worked for the America Corps. out in the parishes for 2 years and I hear a lot about the people out there. SO yeah I would say I know how people in the city feel pretty well. Not as well as people who have lived here their whole lives but probably better than anyone on this board.

The ESPN Mag article says that the Saints offered him the 6-$60 deal but he didn't sign it and wanted to talk to other teams. He then had the detour with Payton and signed it before talking to any other teams.

C'mon now, you know better than that. Check out da bum's treatise on Robbie Hummell and how Purdue and IU are the clear cut best teams in the Big Ten historically. They are historically. If you want to argue about the most recent 30-20-10 years than no Purdue isn't up there with the rest but historically they are.

Let's talk about lazy. Is being lazy not reading anything said by Brees or Sean Payton and just assuming stuff based on absolutely nothing but your own ideas or is lazy reading about why Brees decided to sign and watching interviews where Payton and Brees talk about it? ESPN the Mag just had a story on this an issue ago. Payton was taking Brees to the airport and he was going to fly to Miami. Brees said he was leaning towards Miami but then Payton missed a turn and got into a neighborhood that was destroyed (claims it wasn't on purpose). Brees saw the damage and told Payton he was going to sign with the Saints because he felt a calling to help the city. So yes Brees signed because of Katrina. He signed because nobody else [expletive] wanted him. Even Miami (the only other team) was lukewarm at best. Brees can go around and say it was because of Katrina but it's because no other teams wanted to sign him and the Saints easily offered the most money and the chance to be a starter. Nobody is going to turn down millions of dollars and a starting job to be a backup and not make money just because a city got ravaged by a hurricane. Yeah I guess you know what Brees was thinking better than Brees himself.

Let's talk about lazy. Is being lazy not reading anything said by Brees or Sean Payton and just assuming stuff based on absolutely nothing but your own ideas or is lazy reading about why Brees decided to sign and watching interviews where Payton and Brees talk about it? ESPN the Mag just had a story on this an issue ago. Payton was taking Brees to the airport and he was going to fly to Miami. Brees said he was leaning towards Miami but then Payton missed a turn and got into a neighborhood that was destroyed (claims it wasn't on purpose). Brees saw the damage and told Payton he was going to sign with the Saints because he felt a calling to help the city. So yes Brees signed because of Katrina. As for the other players I guess you would have to live here. All the residents still talk about Katrina all the time and it is brought up to the players a lot by the local media. Almost all the players say one of the reasons they want to win is to give the city something good after Katrina and a Super bowl win may help get the city rebuilt faster (much of it still isn't rebuilt). I have seen multiple interviews this season with players who talk about Katrina. One was with Shockey who said he didn't realize how Katrina still affected the city and how much it meant to the city until he got here. Katrina is a fresh wound still to many people down here because their lives are still not back to what it was before. Also all the people I have talked to said that the Saints was all they had for awhile especially when they were living elsewhere right after the storm. What the media has said about the Saints being the face of the city ever since Katrina is true and anyone who lived here before the storm and is still here now will tell you that. So you guys may not agree or understand (I still don't really) but Katrina still affects the city AND the Saints heavily even though it is 4.5 years later.

peyton manning being awesome at football has a lot more to do with the game than katrina or who dat. Depends on how you look at it. Katrina is why Brees signed with New Orleans and still serves as the inspiration for a lot of players.

I think he was on roids. He might be one of those borderline HOF players that won't get in because he was on roids. You serious or being sarcastic?

I really really hope not.

The quote at the end is pretty funny to me. The article also provides a hint of when to party outside. It said the beach is unpatrolled from midnight to 6 a.m.

Says the guy who is probably the worst out of everyone. I haven't posted in or read this thread too much the last couple weeks but from what I see Illinois runs away with it and its not even close.

Let's not bring up bad memories.

How far do you stretch that out though? Is Larry Walker a HOFer to you? He has a similar career to Nomar albeit at a different position. He dominated for multiple years winning an MVP and multiple GG's but had so many injuries at the end that his career totals aren't quite good enough.

There was a brief moment when he had the ball before his back hit the line, but a timeout call there would have required the official to just be waiting for that brief moment when he possessed the ball. I don't think he actually called the TO. And holy cow, Kramer. Did you really just do that? I'm shocked they didn't call a foul despite there not being contact. Easily could have been a 3 point play. Looked clean on replays. These three's are diving me crazy. Let the game end pleas.e No, I know it was clean. The problem is that he made a motion that gets called a foul all the time for no reason. He took a huge swipe right over the guy's head. It easily could have been called a foul and it easily could have been a made layup. I'll agree with you there. Kramer tends to get the benefit of the doubt due reputation on defense though.

May be a benefit for him to sit. He's got a lot of potential but right now doesn't do much to help.

There was a brief moment when he had the ball before his back hit the line, but a timeout call there would have required the official to just be waiting for that brief moment when he possessed the ball. I don't think he actually called the TO. And holy cow, Kramer. Did you really just do that? I'm shocked they didn't call a foul despite there not being contact. Easily could have been a 3 point play. Looked clean on replays. These three's are diving me crazy. Let the game end pleas.e

Refs have suddenly decided to call a bunch of touch fouls on Purdue. Love it. Call it loose all game then under 5 call a bunch of touch fouls so we can have a close great finish to a game.

Wow that is one of the worst 1 minute stretches of basketball I have ever seen. Way to go Purdue.

Problem with comparing it to MLB is that MLB had so few teams in the playoffs before that they should have upped the number with wild cards. The NCAA already did the comparable wild card upping of teams. That was when they went to 64/65. This would be like MLB adding two more teams to both the NL and AL playoffs. You would go from having the right amount of teams to having too many and causing a lot of problems.

There's no way to solve the scheduling problems. Either you have the top seeds have a near 2 week layoff which would kill them and cause a lot of major issues or you have the lower seeds play two days before having to play a team that got a bye. Problem with that is the team who had to play in the first round would be scouted by the bye team in person and thus be at a disadvantage and probably worse they would be tired while the bye team would be rested but not yet rusty. As others have said the NCAA Tournament is perfect as is and changing it is only going to make it worse. I don't care whatsoever to see teams who couldn't make the field of 64/65 play first. If I cared about that I would watch the NIT every year because that is all it would be.

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The Grizz have perhaps the best big men in the league. Marc Gasol is really good and quickly becoming one of the best centers. Then you got Randolph who is one of the best offensive PF's in the game when he wants to be (which is now). Thabeet is doing well in the minutes he gets. Once he figures out how to stop fouling he will be dominant defensively. He is averaging 1.2 blocks in just 11 minutes. Equate his minutes to a 36 minute per game average and you get 4 blocks a game to go with 10.2 rebounds. In addition to the bigs they Gay and Mayo. They are a young team that is set to be great which is weird to say about Memphis. A good role player or two off the bench and they are great.

The Grizz have perhaps the best big men in the league. Marc Gasol is really good and quickly becoming one of the best centers. Then you got Randolph who is one of the best offensive PF's in the game when he wants to be (which is now). Thabeet is doing well in the minutes he gets. Once he figures out how to stop fouling he will be dominant defensively. He is averaging 1.2 blocks in just 11 minutes. Equate his minutes to a 36 minute per game average and you get 4 blocks a game to go with 10.2 rebounds. In addition to the bigs they Gay and Mayo. They are a young team that is set to be great which is weird to say about Memphis. A good role player or two off the bench and they are great.

I have always said he could struggle to get in for awhile. One problem will be like you said his career numbers aren't going to be quite as high as others retiring around him. However, the thing that has always really bugged me is who he has played with. He plays with one of the best offenses ever accessibled and with two of the best WR's in Bruce and Holt. Bruce starts to slip, as does everyone else other than Holt and Warner starts sucking. He goes to the Giants who have little to work with and sucks on epic proportions (something like 13 fumbles in 5 games). He then goes to Arizona where they have two of the best WR's in the league and once again he is one of the best QB's in the league. To me he's a borderline because he had the time in New York of blowing chunks and even with struggled at the end in St. Louis when he still had Holt and a decent Bruce. I'm not convinced he was anything other than some who could chuck it deep well. That said I'm fine with him getting in eventually and fine with him not. Like I said I'm borderline with him.

Arizona beat Minnesota late in the year so Arizona > Minnesota. You should just go to sleep already because you have obviously told yourself everything you needed to in order to sleep. You can take a vacation down to Haiti and get a Vikings NFC Champions shirt if that will help.